we change with them.") CENTENARY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTH OBSERVED IN LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A LARGE and respectable meeting of citizens was held in the court house in Penn square, Lancaster city on Thursday eve- ning, February 9th, 1832, for the purpose of making provision for the

atlas / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description: 105-106 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

Janu- ary 9th5 and 3Oth,6 1815. The Washington Association held a banquet at Slough's tavern on Wednesday, February 22nd, 1815, at which time it celebrated the birthday of General George Washington. ? Eighty members sat down to an elaborate dinner. Eighteen toasts were drunk,— the fourteenth being as

- ering, a stated meeting of the Washington Association of Lancas- ter was held on the birthday of the "Father of his Country" in the court house at ten o'clock in the morning, at which time an oration was delivered by one of the members. Subsequent issues of the local papers do not contain any refer

, Pa. George Washington ate breakfast in this old tavern on June 4, 1773. �1767, this old hostelry is designated as "Miller's Tavern" and is situated a few hundred feet east of the "English Church", which is old Saint John's Protestant Episcopal church. At the time of Washington's visit, it may have

. "I have added in the book a short history of the rug, which may be of interest to the members of your Society. Yours respectfully, Evans Wallis Shippen." On page 17 of this booklet appears an illustration of the west parlor at Mount Vernon, the fine old home of General George Washington. The rug

he had a large num- ber. At one time in his career, he painted signs and banners ; he also made and gilded frames. On a silk banner painted by him for the Washington Fire Company of Louisville, Kentucky, is repre- sented Washington and his family on the portico at Mount Vernon, with the Potomac

BISHOP BOWMAN'S POEM* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In view of the fact that Americans are celebrating, during the I year 1932, the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of General George Washington, the "Father of his Country," especial interest attaches to the publication of a bit of poetry written